"Can we get in?" Bafang asked.

Xi Bei raised her hand and knocked on Bafang's head, "The door can't be opened, how can I enter." ”

Meng Changqing got out of the car and saw that there were sixty or seventy people blocking the city gate, "Captain Yang." She shouted to the people who were following the car.

Yang Zhengce stepped forward immediately, "Young Master Meng." ”

"You call a few people, light up your clothes, and quickly go around to the two gates in the east and west of the city to check the situation."

"Yes!"

Yang Zheng tightened the reins and turned around, and among the twenty-nine people, he picked five cavalrymen and galloped towards the city gates on both sides.

"Young Master." Bafang approached Meng Changqing and asked in a low voice, "Did you bring anything to eat?" I am hungry. ”

Meng Changqing asked him to eat bread in the car, and he got out of the car for a walk.

Chu Mufeng and Xi Bei also got off their horses and followed Meng Changqing.

Meng Changqing looked at the group of displaced people from afar, "With so many displaced people gathered here, there must be a disaster in some place, but I didn't hear the disaster report from Liangzhou in the palace." ”

Chu Mufeng guessed, "Or the magistrate didn't report it, and the Liangzhou prefect didn't know about it." ”

Xi Bei shook her head, "Liangzhou is different from other places, it is located at the border, and it is common for people to be displaced due to the war. ”

Look at the group of walking corpses, their rags, one after the other, waiting, or moving elsewhere.

Meng Changqing said, "Master, let's go over and ask about the situation. ”

"Don't go." Xi Bei didn't move, "No one can guarantee what they will do." ”

Meng Changqing was very persuasive, she stood in front of her horse and watched the situation at the city gate from afar.

The big brown horse squirted at Meng Changqing's head, grinning his big lips and wanting to gnaw on her hair, but Meng Changqing hurriedly dodged.

After Bafang finished eating the bread, Yang Zheng, who went to the direction of the east gate, brought people back, "Master Meng, the east gate is also blocked, and there are more victims than here." ”

At this time, the cavalry who went to the west gate also returned, "Meng Gongzi, the west gate is open, but when I come back, I see that there are homeless people going to the west gate, and I am afraid that the west gate will be closed in a short time." ”

Meng Changqing immediately jumped into the carriage and "Hurry up and go to the west gate." ”

There were no roads around the perimeter of the city walls, and the horses were nimble enough to pass, but there were some places where the carriages were really impassable.

Fortunately, there were so many people that the carriage could not pass, so the soldiers simply carried the carriage over.

By the time Meng Changqing and his party arrived at the West Gate, there were already two or three homeless people who wanted to enter the city but were stopped.

Xi Bei stepped forward to show the pass, and the soldiers defending the city immediately let them in.

After entering the city gate, Meng Changqing got out of the carriage and arched his hand towards Chu Mufeng: "Lord Bai, you take Captain Yang and them to the post house first, and I will stay to inquire about the situation." ”

"Stay safe yourself." Chu Mufeng took the thirty people and left.

Meng Changqing turned around and walked to the city gate and came to a pair of men and women who were stopped by officers and soldiers.

The man and woman were skinny, their faces were blue from the cold, their lips and cheeks were cracked in many places, and their hands were even more frozen.

"Where are you from? How did you end up here? ”

"Little uncle, we are from Liangzhou, and we really don't have anything to eat at home, so we begged for food all the way." The man knelt down at Meng Changqing, "Ask the little uncle to reward him for his stuttering." ”

The woman next to her also knelt down and kowtowed to Meng Changqing repeatedly.

The officers and soldiers guarding the city blocked them and didn't let them get close to Meng Changqing, "Don't worry about these people, they are all from Beishan County, and they are used to asking for food, and the prefect can't do anything about them, so they were sent back to their places several times, but they came back in a few days."

If you get caught by them, you won't be able to shake them off. ”

Meng Changqing's facial features instantly wrinkled together, "Beishan County? ”

A young gatekeeper said, "The young master is not a local, I'm afraid I haven't heard of that place." ”

Another person smiled: "Even if it is a local, few people know about Beishan County, we have always called that place Yegou, and we only changed the name to Beishan County a month ago." ”

The young gatekeeper said, "It is said that it is the county seat, but there is not even a county official." ”

Another said: "It's not unusual to have no county officials, the whole county is called rare when it asks for food, I heard the people above say that a county official should be sent from the capital, and I don't know which official is so unlucky." ”

Bafang stepped forward to support Meng Changqing, "Young Master, you hold on!" ”

Meng Changqing: "I can't stand it, I'm going crazy." ”

It was the young gatekeeper who said, "Little master, go back quickly." ”

Meng Changqing's gaze fell on the person kowtowing outside.

These homeless people are actually the people under her rule!

There was a child squatting behind the woman, and Meng Changqing noticed it just now.

The child was wrapped in a torn cotton jacket that could not cover his calves, and his exposed skin was frozen black and purple.

Looking at it like this, I couldn't tell whether the child was male or female, and I couldn't estimate his age, but I could only see him squatting on the ground, as if he was eating.

"Is that your child? What is she eating? Meng Changqing asked.

The woman turned around and seemed to realize that she was followed by a child, "She's not my child." ”

Wandering here, the adults still have nothing to eat, she is a child, without the protection of her parents, where does the food come from?

"Master." Meng Changqing turned his head and whispered to Xi Bei, "You help me bring the child in." ”

Xi Bei led the order to go out, and the kowtowing movements of the pair of men and women became slower and slower, but they still hoped that Meng Changqing would stutter.

Meng Changqing also had a time when he couldn't bear it, so he turned around and spent thirty copper plates, bought some dry food with the soldiers guarding the city, and gave it all to the man and woman.

Looking at the displaced people gathered in the distance, "If you don't want to be robbed, hide and eat elsewhere." With that, she turned and walked away, back into the carriage.

The soldiers defending the city saw that the number of displaced people was increasing, and they decisively closed the city gates.

On the side of the road, Xi Bei put the child in the carriage and hissed as she put it, "This kid eats mud, I'm going to throw him and bite him." ”

Meng Changqing stepped forward and asked him, "What's your name?" How did you get here? Are the parents still around? ”

No matter what Meng Changqing asked, the kid didn't react, just unconsciously biting the mud.

"Let's talk about it back at the station." Meng Changqing dragged the child into the carriage and wanted to find him a piece of cake to eat, but he didn't want the cake to be eaten up by all directions, and he didn't even have a crumb left.

The carriage moved forward slowly, and Meng Changqing and the child each occupied a corner in the carriage.

Meng Changqing looked at the child and felt that it was tricky, why did he get someone over as soon as his head was hot.

Could it be that her father's blood is causing trouble, and she wants to take the child home when she sees it?

The kid was gnawing on the dirt, and the dirt was all over the carriage.

Finally arrived at the door of the post house, Meng Changqing jumped down without waiting for the car to stop, "Master, take that child down and find something to eat for him first." ”

Meng Changqing is now eager to complain about the emperor with the Wen family.

But the Wen family and Xiao Dai, who were busy settling the thirty people that Chu Mufeng brought back before, were not in the lobby, only Laicai was waiting for her.

"Young master, Doctor Hu is not leaving!"

"Good! You ask Dr. Hu to show the child, and I'll go find the mother. ”